educating kids to let you know when they're hurt. how does it feel? >> reporter: and to get help from a health care professional sooner rather than later. michelle miller, cbs news, ridgewood, new jersey. >> axelrod: ahead on the cbs evening news, the joys of a bumper crop of pumpkins. >> axelrod: the hot, dry summer ruined corn crops in many parts of the nation, but the drought conditions were just right for that october favorite, the pumpkin. elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: vernon stade says in his 35 years of farming in the northern illinois town of mchenry, this year's searing drought proved to be the worst ever for his corn crop. >> this should be about six feet high now to seven feet, and it's really only about three and a half. >> reporter: but what's bad for stade's corn has been good for another crop. >> i see big pumpkins. >> pumpkins thrive in exact let's kind of warm, dry conditions that existed this summer, so stade's 35-acre pumpkin patch has yielded a bumper crop this year. >> whoo! >> reporter: he says this pumpkin harvest is the